Would be really cool if you could set up a pilot on https://www.youtube.com/@dustupstexas
Readit NewspySSK commented on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores" swiss.social/@swaldorff/1... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
>The idea is that no one should be more than 50 km from such a store and it should prevent hoarding/panic buying as people will know basic food will be available in an emergency.
I dont think that is how it works? That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store. And do people visit it every day or are these "Emergency Stores". After all they need to replenish stock.
Or are these simply some form of marketing play?
Off-Topic: Its been while since I last visited a The Mastodon site and it seems a lot faster than before.
Quotas. My Trader Joe's had a limit of one roll of toilet paper during the pandemic breadlines.
pySSK commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
pySSK commented on TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology taipeitimes.com/News/fron... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
There is another alternative that is much more likely: China gets to or at near parity and then no longer needs to get their hands on Taiwan. At that point they could just as easily destroy it as that they would want to occupy it. And that is a lot simpler. As long as Taiwan has an edge they are safer than when they are a commodity.
Kinda like Hong Kong when it came to the finance industry. Agree mostly. Instead of destroy, I would say China wouldn’t need to/care to maintain their fine balance/
special relationship with Taiwan anymore and would throw their weight around more.
pySSK commented on Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Lossless Audio macrumors.com/2025/03/24/... · Posted by u/ksec
> The lossless audio isn't the real benefit of this, it's the low latency
And we could have had that on all AirPods, for several years now, if Apple were to finally implement LC3 and Bluetooth LE Audio.
Other than enabling much lower latency for unicast, LE Audio even supports broadcast use cases (think gym TV audio, public announcements, hearing aid audio in cinemas etc) and much more.
I really don't understand why that's taking so long; this type of thing seems exactly like something Apple would usually excel at. (Maybe it's too open a standard, and they can't figure out a way to make gyms and cinemas pay for broadcasting to AirPods?)
LE Audio is still too slow and low quality. The next step will likely be UWB audio.
pySSK commented on EV maker Canoo, once worth $2.4B, files for bankruptcy sfgate.com/tech/article/c... · Posted by u/bane
As a meta question, at this point, what is the value add that these startups are trying to do? It seems like a ton of them fail to make a viable base platform profitable and able to mass produce. Is there a market for a white-label EV platforms that are proven able to be executed well on a production line and allow the startups to actually complete on the fit and finish bits?
Or is the base platform the actual value that they're trying to execute on and failing?
- So, going back 10-12 years, Tesla suddenly came and ate legacy ICE makers' lunches on many fronts – launching a successful EV, requisite charging network, overall UX, UI, driver assistance features, performance, sales and delivery, costs, software development, components, repair etc.
- Legacy ICE makers took a long time to figure out how to respond. At first, many of them thought all they had to do to compete was to was to throw in a large portrait screen. Then there were many abominations of them trying to fit EV components into their ICE platforms. I would say the Germans didn't get good at it until 2023-2024 (but they still have a lot to figure out).
- During the time, the legacy ICE makers were figuring things out, the EV startups had the advantage of not having the burden of legacy and figuring things out from first principles. There was a lot of money to be made here. In my estimation, this window of opportunity has now mostly passed.
> It seems like a ton of them fail to make a viable base platform profitable and able to mass produce.
Automotive is essentially a volume game in the long run. This is hard and figuring this out is where the value is. Basically, if you're able to figure out this part, it's a lot less effort to figure out the other parts and control the entire thing. This is similar to how car companies make their own engines (other than in specialty, low volume cases).
> Is there a market for a white-label EV platforms that are proven able to be executed well on a production line and allow the startups to actually complete on the fit and finish bits?
There is a market but it doesn't make sense for EV startups to do this because most of the value is in the previous bit, and the value add from this part is marginally less. Also, cars are complex and it takes a lot of work to integrate things made by others. Car companies do form partnerships to share these things.
Some cases:
1. Honda was late to the EV game and found it easier to form a partnership with GM. This resulted in the Honda Prologue, which is built by GM and is essentially a Chevy Blazer [1]. This model has been a success. However, Honda has cancelled the deal and will be releasing new cars built on its own platform [2].
2. Rivian is one company trying to scale on the platform side – they came out with high price-point vehicles. e.g. R1S competes with Range Rover. They're using the same platform for R1T trucks and for Amazon delivery trucks. Rivian had a partnership with Ford, where Rivian would make the platforms for Lincoln EVs, but Ford pulled out and are making Lincoln EVs on their own platform
VW Group was having major issues with its internal software and electronics tier I Cariad. So, they invested $5bn into Rivian so that they could use Rivian's expertise in this. See [3] for Rivian's perspectives on the various partnerships.
[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/2024-honda-prologue-chevrole... [2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43699034/honda-new-ev-pla... [3] https://electrek.co/2024/07/23/rivian-ceo-spills-tea-why-for...
pySSK commented on The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/paulpauper
In 2019 the NBA's competition committee examined Kirk Goldsberry's proposal [1] to eliminate the shorter-range corner threes. Brad Stevens was on the committee and reportedly said, "You'll never see a slam dunk again" if we do that, because the guys who now have to defend the guys in the corners will go cut off the lanes to the basket.
When faced with prospects of two different kinds of boring, Goldsberry points out that the NBA could either make its courts several feet wider to at least diminish the statistical make-percentage advantage of those 3's -- but that this would mess up arena seating arrangements -- or could outright allow teams to draw their own 3-point lines like the local variation in baseball and soccer [2] fields.
Basketball requires control of space and pace, but as athleticism has increasingly been optimized, there's just not enough space there to force interesting trade-offs on every play. So it forces less interesting ones.
[1] https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26633540/the-nba-obsesse...
[2] https://www.thisisamericansoccer.com/why-are-soccer-fields-d...
Have there been any proposal to make shots from within the paint 1 point? (Purpose would be to encourage from shooting from outside the paint but from within the 3 point line)
pySSK commented on The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/paulpauper
One thing I don't see people talking about is the viewing experience. I love esports, specifically DOTA 2. An average game might be between 35-45 minutes, but a long game might run 80 minutes. In that time, not a single commercial. No time outs. Nothing. 80 minutes of straight entertainment. And going down this road you can include streaming in general. The modern sports watching experience, basketball and other sports included, is completely unwatchable once you get used to actual constant excitement. I'm never watching these sports again because I don't care to watch an ad every 3 minutes.
Fully agreed. Soccer is like your esports example too – 45 minutes uninterrupted, followed by 15 minutes of some ads + analysis, following by another 45 minutes uninterrupted. I find it hard to keep attention if I try to watch NBA or NFL because of all the interruptions.
pySSK commented on German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/belter
Imagine you aren't allowed to drive on the weekend just so some politician can posture like this. Of course it's probably not a real threat, but the right to free movement is often taken for granted, bith by those who actually have it, and those that don't.
This is a conservative newspaper amplifying a conservative politician offering a sensational false choice – i.e. reduce pollution reduction targets or ban driving on weekends. If it’s not obvious, I t’s a a false choice because there are other ways to reduce pollution.
I would prefer a touchscreen with it.
I am not talking about a smartphone, because smartphones are often more powerful, more expensive. I would just prefer a device to do simple computing, with full access to the OS.
Smartphones tend to have android and powerful hardware, and a 4G or 5G antenna. I would just be happy with wifi and enough power to run some C or python code.
I am just curious what is the cheapest screen device that is possible to make with this, as long as it has wifi, a touch screen and be completely open. So far RPI is nice, but it's not really what I want.